Kenneth Branagh is joining the original cast of The Devil Wears Prada for the much-anticipated sequel which begins filming this week.
The actor-writer-director will play the husband of Meryl Streep’s vicious fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Streep returns along with Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.
News of the production was announced on Instagram with a teaser featuring lines from the original.
The sequel, again directed by David Frankel, will reportedly see Priestly dealing with the collapse of the magazine industry, now forced to build bridges with her one-time assistant Emily (Blunt) who is the head of a luxury brand and its advertising spend.
“Why are Meryl and I so mean to each other in every movie we do?” Blunt recently said when talking about the film. “We always have beef with each other. I don’t know what it is. Let’s hope we remedy it. I’m not sure.”
Blunt will soon be seen alongside Dwayne Johnson in the fact-based UFC drama The Smashing Machine and leading Steven Spielberg’s untitled thriller out next summer.
The film will mark Streep’s first film role since 2021’s Don’t Look Up.
The original 2006 comedy, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, made over $326m at the global box office and scored Streep a best actress nomination. Weisberger wrote a sequel novel, Revenge Wears Prada, in 2013 and the film was turned into a stage musical, premiering on the West End in 2024 to middling reviews.
Branagh was last seen in the Agatha Christie adaptation A Haunting in Venice. Last year, he finished production on the psychological thriller The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, a film he is directing with Jodie Comer starring.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is set for release in summer 2026.
